"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."

-- Madeleine Peyroux

#Real Quotes #Live Life Quotes #Past Quotes

“I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.”
“Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?”
“I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.”
“Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.”
“Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.”
“Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.”
“Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.”

Source : Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.438, Transaction Publishers
“Who are we to ask God if it is his will.”

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